Stranded Moroccans Abroad Plead for Repatriation Amid Coronavirus Border Closures

Confined in international airports, without resources or assistance, Moroccan nationals live in fear of contracting the coronavirus and hope for a decision by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to repatriate them to Morocco.

Like 9 other expatriates, Khaoula Miftah, a young woman from Marrakech who has been living in the Maldives for 3 years, had the unfortunate idea of leaving her job at the time when Morocco’s sovereign decision to close its borders was being implemented.

Aware of the current situation in the world, while nourishing the hope of a royal intervention, the young woman specified that about 40 Moroccans, some of whom have been placed in quarantine, are currently blocked in India and Sri Lanka.

While Moroccans in Asia aspire to a gesture from the Moroccan authorities, Majda El Hassani, a Moroccan student at the Callieri University in Italy, rules out any possibility of returning to Morocco. She prefers to spare her loved ones the risk of transmitting the deadly virus.